What does verdant mean?
Word: Verdant
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Verdant means green and full of growing grass, leaves and plants.
Synonyms: green, leafy
Antonyms: barren, dry, arid
How do you spell verdant?
Syllables: ver - dant
Tricky part: It ends in ant, not ent. The last vowel is barely heard, so verdent is easy to write by mistake.
Watch out for: verdent, verdunt
Memory tip: Picture an ant crawling through thick green grass: there is an ant in verdANT.
Verdant in a sentence
Example 1: The verdant lawns of the botanical garden made a cool spot for our picnic.
Example 2: Verdant tea gardens cover the slopes around Munnar.
Example 3: Cows grazed in the verdant field beside the river.
Fun Fact
The Western Ghats, a mountain chain often described as verdant, catch heavy monsoon rain and were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012 for their plants and animals.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word verdant as used in the sentence:
From the train window we watched mile after mile of verdant paddy fields near Thanjavur.
a) sandy
b) rocky
c) dusty
d) lush
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d) lush. Lush fields are thick with healthy green plants, just like verdant ones.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Monsoon showers soon turn the bare hills around Mahabaleshwar into virdant slopes dotted with tiny waterfalls and wild flowers.
a) showers
b) waterfalls
c) virdant
d) flowers
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c) virdant. Say it carefully: the first syllable is ver, with the same vowel sound as herd.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word:
1. blosom 2. verdant 3. foliege 4. shrubery
a) a part of a garden thick with bushes
b) green with growing plants
c) a flower on a tree or bush
d) the leaves of a plant or tree
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b) green with growing plants. Shrubbery doubles its b, blossom doubles its s, and foliage is spelt with an a.
Mingle-Mangle
The sentence contains a jumbled word. Choose the word it hides:
Our once dusty school ground looked tnvrdae after the new sprinklers had run for a month.
a) variant
b) verdant
c) servant
d) vibrant
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b) verdant. Only verdant has a d; servant needs an s, and variant and vibrant need an i.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Ravi says his grandfather's farm looks verdant this year. What has probably happened?
a) the farm was cleared for new houses
b) a long drought dried out the soil
c) the fields were left bare after harvest
d) good rain helped the crops grow well
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d) good rain helped the crops grow well
2. Which of these places is least likely to be called verdant?
a) a paddy field in Kerala
b) a tea garden in Assam
c) the Thar Desert in May
d) the Western Ghats in August
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c) the Thar Desert in May
